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Reviews & User Comments

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User comment January (2011) (Version 10)
Michael Boland
Victoria, Australia

Thank you very much for sending the GrowIt Gold Works Software so promptly.

I am impressed with every aspect of the program. It is great having such a comprehensive tool for planning a coordinated garden. I also like the practical detail peppered throughout the program like exactly how to go about managing the compost in the compost bins as it matures and how to precisely deal with a sick lawn...............

Thanks again
Michael Boland

User comment February (2006) (Version 10)
Patricia Hilty
California, USA

I am totally impressed with the capabilities of your software
It is more than I ever envisioned.
Thankyou so much for creating Growit Gold.

User comment February (2006) (Version 10)
Theodora Cotteleer
South Florida, USA

Hooray! Your program is divine! since I am just a computer novice, I am thrilled with this program. Again, thank you ever so much for the wonderfully put together program that you sold me.

User comment December (2005) (Version 10)
Jerry Holman
Sydney
Australia

Just a brief note to thankyou for the Growit programme. A tremendous reference and sales aid for our nursery and invaluable for our landscape design projects. Over and above this I greatly appreciate the willing and able phone support you gave me when I was short on time and computer skills. I`ll buy you a beer when I`m next in the mountains

User comment October (2005) (Version 10)
Nikki Holwell
Toronto
Canada

Finally got the upgrade (my third since 2002!) and am as thrilled with the latest as I was with the first. The scaling features and ability to convert directly from, and to, JPEG will make this program the absolute best for my purposes. Most of my clients want info by e-mail and JPEG is the only way. The additional CD has some lovely and very useful objects. Thanks.
Plant 3D, along with my digital camera, has enabled me to make laptop presentations to clients in their own homes within a matter of hours. This has exploded my business. Thank you for such a wonderful tool.

User comment September ( 2005) (Version 10)
Charles Price
Upper Colo
Australia

May I compliment you on the fantastic program you have designed. The
changes since V9 are just great. Having the video tutorials within the
windows is a great time saver, especially for novices like me. Even so I
manage to find/make difficulties and it is comforting to know your
assistance is at hand too.

User comment July ( 2005) (Version 10)
Rod Endacott
BC
Canada

Hi Brian, just received/installed the new version and am thrilled with the additions. Thank-you. Particularly happy to have the scaling feature and line length tools in PlantCAD. I’m doing more and more irrigation plans and they will come in very useful. Also enjoyed the readily available tutorials – particularly for when I use the less frequented applications.
The saving to JPG is also important to me. I send a lot of plans in e-mails. I’ve only had a brief look but I just wanted you to know how much I appreciate your work here.

User comment May ( 2005) (Version 10)
Sue Hall
Kittyhawk
USA

The program is superb - I use it all the time and have great success with my clients. Thanks again.

User comment (February 2005) (Version 9)
Ian Martinac
Queensland
Australia

Just to say many thanks, .............................and everything works fine. I've been working through the tutorials and putting down ideas on what I'm going to do. It's easy working from a blank canvas. It is a brilliant product and I am looking forward over the coming months to using it and developing my landscaping project.
Congratulation on a fine product.

User comment (January 2005) (Version 10)
Sue Voloczi
www.pmgardendesign.com.au
South Perth
Australia

Thankyou for the upgrade to Growit Version 10. I really like the PlantCAD Wizard. It makes setting up a new plan much easier. Thankyou again for a wonderful program that I continue to enjoy using. The Plant3D is so powerful in helping to "sell the dream". In addition to the client having a glimpse of the future, if they have been building, they can finally see the end of the road.

User comment (March 2004) (Version 9)
Ken Williams
Germantown
USA

We love your program ! Thank you for sending it so quick. Thank you once again for the quality product you have produced.

User comment (March 2004) (Version 9)
Sue Voloczi
www.pmgardendesign.com.au
South Perth
Australia

I would like to thank you for having developed Growit Gold Works.
I am particularly pleased to have access to a database of plants that includes so many Western Australian native plants. I find the capacity to produce virtual images particularly powerful as visualisation is not a common ability. The virtual image is a great motivator for people to get started on making changes to their garden. They can literally see into the future. The freedom to create images for insertion is also wonderful. Thankyou again for producing such a worthwhile program at an affordable entry price in Australia. It is a great pleasure to use and is very much faster than hand drawn designs.

User comment (January 2004) (Version 9)
Brett Taylor
Whakatane
New Zealand

Brian I am overwhelmed with the amount of information in this program
already and I've only scratched the surface, awesome !!

User comment (November 2003) (Version 9)
Marge Kreischer
Towanda, PA
USA

Your tutorial is awesome and answered all my questions so far. What a great program and I'm looking forward to getting updated for this version. Please let me know when it is available.

User comment (August 2003) (Version 9)
Regina Griebenow
Texas, USA

I wanted to let you know I just received my Growit software in the mail. I am very impressed with it and am having a wonderful time learning to use it......Thank you for your time, and again, I am very impressed with Growit Gold.

User comment (July 2003) (Version 9)
Jim Beardsley
Minnesota, USA

I love the program - I've tried several other commercial programs and nothing compares with the ease and thoroughness of this product.

User comment (June 2003) (Version 9)
Pamela Helms
Tyngsboro
MA, USA

I would enjoy promoting the GrowIt software product, as I use it almost daily. I purchased my copy last January. I find it a very powerful design tool and it compliments the various other avenues I use for garden/landscape design wonderfully. Thank you for such a professional product. By the way, great customer/technical support from Brian at ITS.




User comment (March 2003) (Version 9)
Sue McClure
Cumby, Texas
USA

This is the only reasonably priced landscaping software I've found that
is useful to a professional landscaper....I surely do like the mapping feature that allows me to use my own photos as plants that can be pasted on a client's photo landscapes. Keep up the good work.
Sue



User comment (December 2002) (Version 9)
Mark Maloney and Richard Klinger
White Springs
Florida, USA

I absolutely LOVE your tutorial program for the growit gold edition. Straightforward and easy to understand. Just thought you would like to know. I had the other owner watch them with me to see what he thought. He was impressed. We absolutely LOVE this tutorial and program. Keep up the good work!!!! I had to go all the way to Australia to find a landscaping program that has both the bird's eye view of a project and a first-person view all rolled into one--at an affordable price.--unbelieveable. By the way, do you guys know how long I have been looking for something like the product you are offering?? Well, just forever, that's how long. Great job guys!!
Sincerely (and we mean that)


User comment (October 2002) (Version 9)
Nikki Howell
Toronto
Canada

First of all, let me say , "thank you, thank you, thank you" for
creating such an amazing program. I am just starting my own garden
design and maintenance business and your program is going to make it
much simpler for me to present professional looking designs to my
clients. As I use a laptop as my main computer, it also means I can
offer these presentations in their own homes.


User comment (September 2002)
Scott Baker
Charleville
Queensland

Thanks for your reply to my request for details.
Did you Know (you probably already know) that you offer the best, after-sales service plus ongoing technical and Intellectual upgrading and customer information, that I have ever had the Pleasure and fortune of coming across. Something tells me you are a bloke that must have a broad recognition nationally & internationally for this and an integrity that I hope will be followed by all wwweb users



User comment (July 2002)
Charles Price
Upper Colo
NSW, Australia

Just short note to say "thank you" for your fabulous program, which we received on Monday. The tutorials are just the most helpful resource we could have imagined. After 40 years in education, I believe this is one of the most well thought out instructional guides I have ever seen. It is meaningful to me, as a computer novice, and at the same time to my son, who is a professional in the IT industry.My wife & I can see many great hours getting to know the program and enjoying recording, modifying and planning our gardens.



User comment: (Feb 2002)
Alan Byram
NSW, Australia

I've been using your software quite a bit, and using your Tutorials, I keep going back to the Tutorials and each time I find something new, They are a Godsend.
Plant3D has got to be one of your greatest pieces of software, it can also change normal photos of anything, incl. People.
Once again thanks for producing a great piece of software.



Review:
Magazine: Better Landscaping and Gardening Ideas:

"An Australian designed computer gardening programme called GrowIt Gold Works, incorporates some of the most sophisticated landscaping information currently available. GrowIt Gold Works is one of the most comprehensive computer software products for gardeners and plant professionals in the world."



User comment:
Australian PC World :


"......in the meantime, I discovered an excellent Australian product in this field. (horticulture) It is GrowIt Gold Works from Innovative Thinking Software. It does everthing the English product claims, but better, and for Australian conditions."



Rob Hicks Garden Show with Robert and James
National radio 3AK :

"...what tremendous value for such a comprehensive Australian program.... Most of the computer software products I have seen dont allow you to change the database information but this one does..."



The following note was posted on CompuServe:
From Marilyn M. LeBlanc:
Cambridge, MN, U.S.A.


"Brian: I just wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying your software. It is just what I have been looking for and I want to tell the world that HERE IT IS! Finally a software that does it all. It has plants already listed in its database from which you can chose. You can insert your own personal preference of plants and flowers,trees ect. You can import pictures to go with the records. You can create lists of particular items. It has a plantit section where you can place them in your garden and rearrange them as you would like. I could go on and on, but for anyone who is out there looking for a garden program, Check this one out, I am totally satisfied. Thanks Brian.
Marilyn M. LeBlanc"



Printed in RemARKs the official newsletter of ARK ANGLES:
Australian Software Distributors:
Rob and Cathy McDonell, Proprietors:


"GrowIt Gold Works by Innovative Thinking....program of the year."



From Cathy Woods:
Morphett Vale:
South Australia:


"Allow me to congratulate you on one of the best computer programmes I have seen in a while."



From Ziff-Davis Interactive:
Software Distributors:
Cambridge, MA, U.S.A:


"GrowIt is an excellent program for the gardener....use the friendly interface ....Growit is a well executed program that will help you design your dream garden in no time at all. RATING **** "



From Laurence G. Adams:
Botanical Consultant:
O'Connor, ACT, Australia


"I have had a copy of your GrowIt package for close to a month now, and am very impressed with its many powerful features, flexibility and potential. Indeed, I've brought it to the attention of a number of my colleagues, and several are considering purchase."



From Dennis Hill:
Reviewer, Australian Farm Computing Magazine:
Beechwood, N.S.W.:
Australia:


"Just a quick note to congratulate you on your program GrowIt Gold.....all I can say is - fantastic! a really professional package."



Review:
John O'Halloran:
Gold Coast Bulletin:

"You will rejoice in the fact that this is a very well conceived program....amazingly thorough databases....fully professional tools for nurseries and home users."



Review:
Your Computer Magazine:
Melbourne, Australia:


"Nursery owners, Landscapers, Horticultural students or serious home gardeners will find GrowIt Gold Works a uniquely useful program for planning, finding and cataloguing anything to do with plants. Future tasks and seasonal imperatives are also fully programmable to warn you in advance. The program is both an extensive database of plant varieties and landscape designs as well as a financial planner to help operate a business dependent on the seasons more than any other."



Review:
Australian PC Review Magazine:

"The database's of plants is extensive, covering many different species, and its easy to search for a plant by characteristics....in addition GrowIt for Windows also includes useful information about gardening practices such as Pruning, Mulching and watering..."



From Peter Jones:
Kaleen, ACT, Australia:


"The latest version of GrowIt Gold Works is just superb!
Are you looking for immortality?"



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